Disable turbo boost

I've enabled turbo boost and now don't seem able to disable it - anyone help? (w520)

Hi Tinysally,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
Intel Turbo Boost is very useful in certain situations, especially if you’re doing “heavy” computational work. Intel Turbo Boost Technology is usually enabled by default. You can disable and enable the technology through the BIOS if you have an option listed there. Once enabled, Intel Turbo Boost Technology works automatically under operating system control.
To disable Intel turbo boost within Windows, try the below fix.
Go into Power options (Control panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Power Options) and click Change plan settings near your plan.
Then click on Change advanced power settings.
Scroll down to Processor power management and expand it.
Expand Maximum processor state and modify both on battery and Plugged in to 99%.
Then simply click Apply and OK.
Also please make sure, that Minimum processor state is not greater than Maximum processor state (in this case - 99%), because this fix won’t work. I suggest you to set it to 5% or so.
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
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I've already "read the wiki" and neither of the two links posted above are relevant to my question. One of them even says that it may not work with "sys" devices. I've been researching this all day, and thought maybe someone here could help me. I should've known better.
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I looked in the BIOS, but the layout "Advanced" hidden.
Can still know how to disable TurboBoost?
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2yigit, thank you. I'll wait for your answer, as well as look for himself. Maybe find a solution. If that - otpishu in this topic. But something tells me that the best solution to this problem -the discovery of hidden partitions bios. But how? No idea.
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Z87-G45 BIOS 1.2 Disables Intel Turbo Boost?

I just installed a new Z87-G45 with an i7-4770k. I installed BIOS 1.2 after getting the system running.
I wanted to test that the Intel Turbo Boost was working, so I went to download Intel's Turbo Monitor, but they helpfully let you know it isn't compatible with 4th generation I-series processors. So I downloaded the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, hoping it would show the CPU frequency live. It shows the CPU frequency at a constant 3.50Ghz, although I don't know if that means Turbo isn't working or the utility just doesn't do realtime frequency monitoring (but then why does it graph it?) The option to enable or disable Turbo Boost is grayed out in the ETU.
I went into OC in the BIOS to find the Turbo setting and make sure it was turned on... and found out there was no Turbo setting. Intel Turbo is not located where it is described in the user guide for this mobo. So I dug around the OC menu until I found OC->CPU Specifications->CPU Technology Support; that screen shows Intel Turbo Boost: N/A
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With Turbo Boost, does it even pay to overclock for anything but games?

I'm not a big gamer, but use the computer for everything else. Quite a bit of realtime stuff for business that can use the cpu.
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Quote from: d593562 on 15-November-09, 12:34:34
I'm not a big gamer, but use the computer for everything else. Quite a bit of realtime stuff for business that can use the cpu.
Considering Turbo boost seems to work quite well in kicking the mHz from 1500 to 3000 when needed, I wonder how much extra horsepower I'd actually see if I oclocked this i5 to say 3.4 mHz? And would I be turning turbo boost OFF when overclocking?
i think turbo boost increase the clock for your processor from 2.66 to 3.2 but it'll reach that 3.2 only if you use a single core of your processor.
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Turbo boost always enabled. Help.

Hey all,
Recently I reformatted my Thinkpad X220T i7. Ever since, the Turbo Boost has been enabled and I can not turn it off. Even if I move the bar in the Power Manager all the way to the right, the CPU, Turbo Boost is still enabled.
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Hi,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
Intel Turbo Boost is very useful in certain situations, especially if you’re doing “heavy” computational work. Intel Turbo Boost Technology is usually enabled by default. Once enabled, Intel Turbo Boost Technology works automatically under operating system control.
I doubt the only method for disabling turbo boost is the one you have performed.
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Grizzler, welcome to the forum.
From what I have read, once you manually overclock the processor you should actually disable Turbo-boost. It can affect the stability of your processor. This makes sense. Overclocking generates much more heat.
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I'm new into MSI laptops and I've bought an GT70 PE Dominator Pro.
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Quote from: d593562 on 15-November-09, 12:34:34
I'm not a big gamer, but use the computer for everything else. Quite a bit of realtime stuff for business that can use the cpu.
Considering Turbo boost seems to work quite well in kicking the mHz from 1500 to 3000 when needed, I wonder how much extra horsepower I'd actually see if I oclocked this i5 to say 3.4 mHz? And would I be turning turbo boost OFF when overclocking?
i think turbo boost increase the clock for your processor from 2.66 to 3.2 but it'll reach that 3.2 only if you use a single core of your processor.
over-clockers usually disable turbo boost and then over-clock the processor manually to have a more consistent and stable system. also get better overall performance .

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How can I check if turbo boost is working on Mac OS ?MBP 13.3" with i7 has turbo boost disabled on windows?WHY?
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Hi kdev_.
I am also experiencing the same problem, and I've called both Intel, and Apple. I have the same computer like you and I ran the Intel Turbo Boost Monitor software within Windows 7, and I found out that my maximum speed of my CPU does not exceed 2.70 Ghz, which means that Apple has disabled Intel Turbo Boost 2.0, which does not make any sense, and makes me very angry, because I've spent so much money for this computer. According to Apple and Intel's website, the Intel Core i7 2620m is supposed to boost up to 3.4 Ghz when Turbo Boost 2.0 kicks in, but my processor isn't going faster than 2.70 Ghz in Windows 7. According to AnandTech,
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Turboboost is a feature which you cannot enable or disable it. Its activated when OS requests for it. Download the Intel® Turbo Boost Technology Monitor from here and see how this features gets automatically active on the Notebook.
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